The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-28

on the commodities of life are getting
to be a nuisance, and as they seem to
be out of the reach of the law, the
best way to get rid of them seems to
be to let them "buck" against them
selves until the last of them have
become bankrupt.
THE GAMBLERS.
When Mayor Reache took the reins
of government he announced that
"the gamblers must CO." but as this
had been one of Carter Harrison's pet
ways of catching votes, not much
faith was put in the statement. 1t
now transpires however, that the
Mayor was in earnest, and the police
are kept busy raiding the various
houses, and breaking up the furniture.
This latter part of the programme is
usually done when the place is raided
in order to keep the owners from re-
plevying the things, which they would
otherwise do. For years the
city has been overrun with gam
blers and gambling houses. They have
existed in the business portions of the
city under the very caves of the city
building without molestation, although
contrary to law. and they have ex-
listed in the slums. Not only are the
low places being made victims of the
new government but the heightened
places are also being made to suffer, and
even more so than the small ones, fol
most of them are luxuriously furnished.
THE PooLRooMs
are also coming in for their share of
police attention under the new state
law, which prohibits betting on horse
races, or boOk-msking except on en-
closed race courses. There were quite
a number of these places and they
have all been closed. The only thing
to be regretted about this law is that
it gives the Washington Park Club a
monopoly on legalized gambling in
Chicago, and it now seems as if they
would not be slow in taking advan-
tage of their opportunity. Some of
the proprietors of the old pool-rooms
are talking of leasing piece ofground
in the south part of the
city and establishing a race
course of their own. By doing
this they can gamble with IMMUNITY,
although they only have one race per
day, and that between two milk
wagons, a couple of dogs, or anything
else that may suit their fancy.
THE WORK OF CLEANING UP
the city has also been extended to
houses of ill-repute and saloons that
were frequented by women of easy
virtue. These two have certainly
been one of the deepest stains the city
possessed, and there were numerous
parts of the city that a decent woman
could not pass through without hav-
ing the blush of shame brought to
their cheeks by the low talk and rude
conduct of the denizens who inhabited
them. They were allowed to exist
from the simple fact that in a large
number of cases the houses they occu.
pied were owned by men who in some
cases held city positions, and in other
cases 'stood In" When the new ad-
ministration took hold these obstacles
to the working of the city laws were
removed and the work of renovating
the city commenced in earnest, and
has been kept up ever since. When
the time came for the removing of
saloon licenses many saloon.keepers
were surprised by being informed that
they were on the blacklist" their
places having been Investigated by
the police, and reported as nuisances.
By this means a large number of them
were forced out of existence. Chicago
could well spare many more and still
be none the worse off. Your CORES
pondent especially rejoices that
THE "DAGo JOINTS"
on Randolph street, of which he wrote
at some length not long since, were
among the number which went by the
boa.d. There were some four or five
of these, and twas welLknown fact
that although they professed to be
conducted as saloons, their real object
was to entice young girls to their ruin,
and afterward kick them. out on the
mercies of cold world, to become
disgrace to civilization. One could
pick up the morning papers and read
that Minnie - had committed sui
eide by jumping into the river or the
lake, and the coroner returned YER
dict according to the evidence And
this was generally as far as the inves-
tigation went. If one could
but see back of MANY of